Sorry about that! Service ran out of memory for some reason and I took some time to investigate.

Edit: Going to take a second hit, rebooting again to roll back a kernel upgrade that was applied yesterday.

Edit2: It's fixed properly now.

I keep hearing upvote and downvotes doesn't matter on fediverse. How does the "Top of the day" work? Is it just comments on a post? Thanks for clarifying.

Hello everyone!

I've setup two more public interfaces that you can use to browse lemmy.ca:

• https://old.lemmy.ca/ - This runs mlmym to give you an experience closer to that site most of us fled from

• https://voyager.lemmy.ca/ - This runs voyager for a more iOS mobile style interface

Enjoy!

If I want to link to a community X on a Lemmy instance Y.zzz, I know I should use the link /c/X@Y.zzz, which will redirect to the copy of the instance on the server where the user has the account.

What is the analogous way to link to a post? For example this post has address lemmy.ca/post/1866360 but what link should I give to users on another instance, so that they can see the post in their instance?

Hello everyone!

We'll be having a brief maintenance window on Saturday at 11:30AM Pacific Time, should be under 30 minutes.

I'll be applying OS updates, cranking up the kernel nofile limits and probably some memory / swappiness tweaks.

This is a little late, but I figure that it's better late than never!

For full transparency, I'm just going to give a high level overview of the financial situation of lemmy.ca through June 2023, when I started to accept donations.

Total Expenses: $30.00

This includes all hosting fees, including backups, etc.

Total Contributions: $1,503.03

• $1,184.84 through LiberaPay
• $318.19 through OpenCollective

All contribution amounts are not including payment processor and/or OpenCollective fees.

Remaining Balance: $1,473.03

I plan on transferring the remaining balance to the new admin team, whenever they are ready to accept it.

Thank you to all that have contributed so far, I couldn't have gotten the instance to where it is now without your generosity. I'm very excited to see what comes next and look forward to watching the instance grow more!

Hi, I'm sorting by hot and still seeing posts from yesterday. Whereas with my lemmy.ml account I see up to date posts. Is anyone else experiencing problems? I've already tried logging out and back in.

Hi all, Is there a way for me to block a particular domain no matter in which community it finds itself in? There are some news outlets that I just don't want to be polluted by.

Thanks!

Now it's a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)

It'll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that's okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I'll do my best to help :)

We're hitting a bug that is causing the database to be locked when some users try to delete their accounts.

I've temporarily disabled account deletion until this is resolved.

Hi All!

I've created a status page for lemmy.ca available at https://status.lemmy.ca/

The uptime bar and response times graph at the top are automatically populated, with the details below manually added.

I'll try to keep this up to date with smaller changes that might not be worthy of a post to this community.

How do I go about it without damaging the server, it's reputation in the fediverse, and just generally keeping the admins happy.

Example: In c/printSF I want to write a bot that autodetects books titles, and comes up with links to those books on booknaut or similar (confined to one comment per post). But that bot will need to poll c/printSF periodically, and it'll need to post under its own bot username.

Do I register the username just like I did mine, and specify that it's for a utility bot in a community I moderate?

Can I play in c/test without it flooding the local frontpage?

Are there any general guidelines or criteria, other than obviously no spamming?

Would it be useful if c/moderators or something similar existed so we can exchange ideas and best practices and such without polluting main's SNR?

Cheers

Hi Everyone!

Not that there's anything wrong with the maple leaf, but I feel like we could use a better logo that is a little more lemmy themed.

Any of the more artisticly inclined folks like to help us out with a new logo?

Are we going to be getting that going again?

This Cthulu looking tree in Edwards park around Lawrence ave.

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1204463

Discuss it here: https://lemmy.ca/post/623204

I wrote a guide to help users with their migration to Lemmy

This guide will help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy ~~subreddits~~ communities

There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

Howdy all!

I know we're a brand new instance, but as we're public and users are joining up, I felt that I should post this.

I know we're past Christmas already, but I hope everyone is doing as well as possible, staying safe, and having an enjoyable end of the year.

I'm very much looking forward to Lemmy developments and refinements, and lemmy.ca specifically being a fantastic and useful spot for people.

Here's hoping the bugs of 2020 take a hike in 2021 and that it's a much merrier year over all.

Peace to all!